Cantonese Sentence Breakdown
        
        
        
                     
            
              can
            
            
              may
            
            
              able to
            
            
              to approve
            
            
              to permit
            
            
              to suit
            
            
              (particle used for emphasis) certainly
            
            
              very
            
            
              fit
            
            
              to be worth (doing)
            
            
              to need (doing)
            
            
              but
            
            
              however
            
            
              yet
            
            
              actually
            
         
        
                     
            
              oh (expression of agreement or surprise)
            
            
              (Cantonese) not
            
            
              to hold in mouth
            
            
              to bite
            
         
        
        
                     
            
              so (Cantonese)
            
            
              Mandarin equivalent: 这样zhèyàng [这样], like this
            
         
        
        
                     
            
              to think
            
            
              to believe
            
            
              to suppose
            
            
              to wish
            
            
              to want
            
            
              to miss (feel wistful about the absence of sb or sth)
            
            
              to plan
            
         
        
        
                     
            
              to go out
            
            
              to come out
            
            
              to occur
            
            
              to produce
            
            
              to go beyond
            
            
              to rise
            
            
              to put forth
            
            
              to happen
            
            
              to grow
            
            
              to have (something unpleasant occurring)
            
            
              to leave
            
            
              to send out
            
            
              out
            
         
        
                     
            
              -ly
            
            
              structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
            
            
              earth
            
            
              soil
            
            
              ground
            
            
              region
            
            
              the base of the coffin
            
         
        
        
                     
            
              indignant
            
            
              generous
            
            
              to sigh (with emotion)
            
         
        
        
                     
            
              (phrase 
            
            
               adverb 
            
            
               noun) no, not.
            
         
        
        
        
                     
            
              an alternative form for 能,to be able
            
         
        
                     
            
              right
            
            
              trap
            
            
              trick
            
            
              pawn
            
            
              to regard as
            
            
              to pawn
            
            
              thought
            
            
              fit
            
            
              proper
            
            
              safe
            
            
              appropriate
            
            
              to treat as
            
         
        
                     
            
              man
            
            
              person
            
            
              people M: 个gè [个] 
            
            
               位wèi [位]
            
            
              mankind
            
            
              someone else
            
         
        
                     
            
              to go
            
            
              to go to (a place)
            
            
              to cause to go or send (sb)
            
            
              (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth
            
            
              to be apart from in space or time
            
            
              (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker)
            
            
              (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
            
            
              (of a time or an event etc) just passed or elapsed
            
         
        
        
                     
            
              to (a place)
            
            
              until (a time)
            
            
              up to
            
            
              to go
            
            
              to arrive
            
            
              (verb complement denoting completion or result of an action)
            
            
              been to
            
            
              a particle used after a verb or adjective to indicate degree 
            
            
               extent
            
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
                     
            
              to receive
            
            
              to accept
            
            
              to suffer
            
            
              subjected to
            
            
              to bear
            
            
              to stand
            
            
              pleasant
            
            
              (passive marker)
            
            
              to endure
            
            
              to receive a prison sentence
            
         
        
                     
            
              actually
            
            
              place
            
            
              classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc
            
            
              that which
            
            
              particle introducing a relative clause or passive M: 个gè [个]
            
            
              a building
            
            
              a bureau
            
            
              a station
            
            
              an office
            
            
              that which
            
            
              all that
            
            
              whatever
            
            
              a unit
            
         
        
                     
            
              limit
            
            
              bound
            
            
              to set a limit (on)
            
            
              boundary
            
            
              line
            
            
              limited
            
            
              threshold
            
            
              restriction
            
            
              to specify
            
         
        
        
                     
            
              important
            
            
              vital
            
            
              to want
            
            
              to ask for
            
            
              will
            
            
              going to (as future auxiliary)
            
            
              may
            
            
              must
            
            
              (used in a comparison) must be
            
            
              probably
            
            
              if
            
            
              essential points
            
            
              necessary
            
            
              necessity
            
            
              to desire
            
            
              to need
            
            
              should
            
         
        
        
                     
            
              individual
            
            
              this
            
            
              that
            
            
              size
            
            
              classifier for people or objects in general or an action
            
            
              indicates approximation when placed before numbers and after a verb
            
            
              adds emphasis when added before a complement used with a verb
            
            
              size
            
            
              height
            
            
              one
            
            
              possessive particle
            
            
              ten thousand dollars 
            
            
               bucks